The Seduction Strategies; the young-mothers fetish

texture · Subsidized era, → YDAU

• When: ongoing as of YDAU (Strategies recited across the Nov YDAU phone calls); the young-mothers period noted YDAU
• What: Orin has numbered "Speedy Seduction Strategies" he recites to Hal by phone — e.g. Strategy 7, the fake wedding band and fictional beloved wife ("Number 7 never misses"); Strategy 4, the just-defrocked Jesuit seminarian; and (scene 064) "Seduction Strategies 12 and 16." Hal's verdict: "It's like you're inventing somebody you love just to seduce somebody else into helping you betray her." Orin's Subjects run heavily to young married mothers of small children — "Orin was going through a period where he was attracted only to young mothers of small children" — after whom he mails an expensive present to the child and then has his phone number changed. (Wayne's mimicked "I-live-in-fear-of-rejection" ploy, per n332, is one of Orin's Strategies for "young married women.")